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Bye-bye.

Looks like we got them all.

No, no, I saw some of them looking at that way right after the fight started.

Well, if they're laying for us in the village, how are we going to set up an

OP?

Depends on how many there are.

Hey, Sarge.

Hey, hold it! It's me!

It's Kirby.

I thought he was still in the hospital.

Why don't you just stand there? Come on, let's get on with the war.

Kirby's back and you got him.

Hey, hey. I thought you had a million dollar wound there, Kirby. Well, I did

too, but they told me down at Battalion 8 I'm a victim of inflation.

Hey, Sarge.

Got a replacement here for you. His name's Cal.

Hi. Hi. We can use you.

This is Doc, Sawyer, Cage, Little John, and Fleming.

Well, well, well.

What do you know?

One of them.

You two know each other?

Yeah.

Yeah, we started the war together in the same company. Omaha Beach.

There's a cowboy on the way to set up an observation post at Bellevue.

It's about a mile from here in a village. The Krauts could be there.

Okay.

Let's go.

Ready?

Where'd you pick him up?

Platoon headquarters.

He just got back from a couple of weeks rest and rehab.

He said it was with the sea company up north of here and they had it pretty

rough. That club was three days straight in a row.

But Cal was lucky, huh?

You better believe it. He's the only guy left in this squad.

Well, that's twice.

What do you mean, twice?

First time was Omaha Beach.

He was the only one left alive out of his squad there, too.

Move out.

Vic Morrow.

And Rick Jason.

Guest star, John Cassavetes.

Hey, Cal, how many Purple Hots you got?

I mean, you've been pretty lucky to get through all this without having to...

Why don't you take a walk off a high cliff?

Oh, I didn't mean to ruffle you.

I just wanted to know.

Blimey, you looking for trouble?

No trouble, Sarge.

This guy Cal's up here. He's a cop-out.

He spent more time on rest and rehabilitation than he has on the line.

Ran out on his squad at Omaha.

Get behind some rocks and the whole bunch were as good as wiped out.

You see him run out on his squad?

Well, not personally, but I... You know anybody who did? Anybody you can

believe?

Now, you give it to me straight.

Now, look, Sarge, everybody was saying it. Everybody was saying what?

Scuttlebutt.

Yeah, but look.

Now, look, Fleming, you get this straight. I don't care about

Scuttlebutt. I don't like anyone trying to lasso my squad just because he

doesn't like someone.

From now on, you say anything with your own eyes. You got the facts. You come to

see me or else you shut up.

Understand?

I said you understand!

Yeah.

Cobb, Sawyer, get to the roof by keeping busy.

Hey, little John.

Fine. You're on me. We'll take the cave. Let's go.

Where were you? Now, where the devil were you?

I couldn't move. Well, look, I moved, didn't I? I made it here.

What happened?

He just stayed there.

Sawyer's catching everything, and he just stayed over there.

You.

You let him die.

I didn't let anybody die. I was pinned down.

And I don't know what you're getting at.

What gives here anyway?

What's he accusing me of?

I was pinned down.

Kirby, you tell me exactly what happened.

I don't know, Sarge.

Look, everything was so messed up and everything was flying.

If I'd been over there where he was, I don't know. I might not have been able

to do any more.

All right, so I'll get one of his tags.

Go on.

Move out to the village.

We use that church as an OP. Stay spread out, there might be some trouble here.

Calm.

Just spread out.

Take all the heads of the church!

Little John, chase those trots out of the village.

Cage, give him a hand.

Right.

Check out this church.

Hey, Sarge, where's Cal?

We'll look for him later.

We'll get the second floor.

Bye.

Hey!

Hey!

Sir?

Second floor is clean.

Where do you get a duck?

In a leg.

Let's get him in the church. You can fix him up in there.

Fleming, give him a hand.

I said give him a hand.

How you doing?

Sure am I, Dave, for being a big help.

He'll be all right. Doc,

give him a shot, then we'll get him back to the aid station.

How's that second floor for an OP?

Yeah, it's open on three sides.

I better call in.

Jack, my King 2, this is White Rook, over.

This is King 2, over.

Objective taken. Since last report engaged, two enemy squads killed six.

The other's headed for the east.

Around casualties, one killed in action, one wounded in action.

We'll evacuate wounded to your position, over.

Establish OP and stand by, over.

Roger, out.

No more cops, Sergeant.

What happened?

They had a vehicle. Took off going east.

We're on standby.

Little John, you take the second floor. Keep a close watch.

Cage, outside.

All right.

Kirby, let's man these windows just in case you take that one.

Morning. Take this window.

You'll feel better when it starts to take off.

What's wrong?

It's a bad wound, huh?

No, no, it's a flesh wound.

Plummet, take this one now.

What's wrong?

Look, I don't want to start anything, but... He's got powder burns on his pant

leg where that bullet went through.

Well, it bled quite a bit, but there's no permanent damage.

I don't get it.

What are you looking at?

How did you get these powder burns?

Powder? Powder burns?

You think I shot myself?

You think I pulled the trigger on myself?

That's what you're saying.

Shot myself just to get out of here?

You wait a minute. I didn't say that.

Just asking how you got the powder burns on your pants, that's all.

I had a fight with this kraut.

It was a big guy.

Had one of those... pair of those steel ring glasses, you know.

Kraut glasses.

It was hand to hand.

Yeah.

I couldn't even shove him far enough away to shoot.

I tried to raise my weapon, but... I don't remember what happened exactly.

Anyway, it went off.

Where did this happen?

In front of the church.

Yeah.

There is a dead crowd out there.

Yeah, but he ain't got no specs on.

Well, you couldn't see him from here anyway, especially the other way.

Hey, Fleming, forget it.

You look.

When you're on MP duty, let me know about it.

Hey, uh... Look, these scratches.

Look at that, huh?

That's how close we were fighting.

Lousy Kraut.

Darn, he dug my face off with his fingernails.

Sarge, I've been scratched like that in hand-to-hand. You know that.

Tell me something, Kalb.

How'd you shoot that German if you couldn't raise your rifle?

That's what you said, wasn't it?

I used my bayonet.

Your bayonet was in your scabbard.

I wasn't.

Sure, sure it was. But I managed to get one arm free and I reached back and I

pulled it out like that.

And that German, he just stood there facing you and let you do it.

I don't know.

He had to see you pull that bayonet.

All right, Fleming, lay off.

I think it happened in a hand-to-hand fight. We all know that.

You can't, Sarge. You've been in enough of them.

What are you trying to do, Fleming?

What goes here, Sarge? What's he trying to do to me?

Just forget about it.

Sarge, what are you going to do? Help cover up for this coward?

I'm not trying to cover up for anybody.

Now, you look, Fleming, I told you before and I'll tell it to you again.

Unless you see it with your own eyes, unless you've got the facts, you keep

your mouth shut.

All right, Doc, let's fix up his scratches. Let's get him back to the aid

station, huh?

Clean, isn't it? Clean!

Just as clean as the day it was issued.

Where's the blood, Kalb?

How did that German bleed?

Or did you just stop and take time to clean it nice and neat?

And maybe even oil it.

After you killed a German.

No.

No.

I remember now.

Listen, Sarge, it... It wasn't my bayonet. It was his.

The Krauts.

Yeah. I remember now.

You see, we were struggling.

And I reached behind him to his scabbard.

And I pulled out his bayonet and I stuck him with it.

You gotta believe me.

I got mixed up before.

I'm telling you the truth now.

Yeah. The whole truth and nothing but the truth.

You're a lousy, rotten liar, Cobb. And everybody here knows it.

You killed three of my buddies at Omaha Beach.

And today you kill Sawyer, one of the nicest guys that ever lived.

You are a rotten, lousy coward.

Trying to sit it out back of the lines with a self-inflicted wound.

Let me get you back to your window.

I said get back to your window!

Doc, let's get him out of here.

I'll get the pipe.

Hey, Doc.

You stay close to the buildings. You ought to be clear of the way to the

platoon.

Hey, Fleming went out.

What's he doing now? What's he doing now?

Bringing in that croc. The one you said you killed.

Run!

Leave him there!

What? I said leave him there and get in here!

I told you not to go out there plumbing your own report.

All right, all right, so I'm on report.

But at least now we know the truth about the make-believe German with the make

-believe steel rim glasses on who was killed with his make-believe bayonet.

Now you get this, Carl.

That German wasn't stabbed, he was shot.

He hasn't got any steel rim glasses on.

And he hasn't got a fight scratch on his face.

You don't believe me? You just... Take a look out that window. He's right there

in front.

This time I got the facts.

I didn't say it was that particular kraut.

Oh.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I thought you said the kraut in front of the church.

Well, there ain't no other kraut in front of the church.

Oh, I don't care if you believe me or not because I'm telling the truth.

She likes bleeding again.

Hey, Cal, we believe you.

We believe you're telling the truth.

Just like the court-martial's gonna believe you.

Sarge, I think I made my point.

him up and get him out of here.

The crowd I killed must have curled away or something.

Maybe it wasn't in front of the church.

I know it sounds crazy, but with everything going on, I could have been

mixed up. I mean, someplace else.

How's it going, Doc?

Pretty soon.

You gonna do what Fleming wants?

You gonna make out that reporter about me?

What Fleming says or anybody else says doesn't matter. Making that report is my

job. I'll make that decision.

Sarge, I know I don't seem to have things down right.

Where I was, the wrong crowd. I was just telling Doc here.

But I didn't do anything wrong. I fought right.

You know what a court-martial will do to me?

I can see it on these guys' faces. They think I'm guilty.

What do you think a court-martial's gonna do?

You'd get a fat trial.

You know what a court-martial means?

You know what it really means?

I know what it means.

Look, I don't make friends easy, you know.

A lot of guys don't like me.

And I'll tell you the truth, I don't care about a lot of them either.

But I got a wife.

I got a couple of kids and I care about them.

And all they need for their old man to come home with some lousy, dishonorable

discharge and everybody be pointing to him on the street every place they go.

All because of some lies.

It's crazy. It's stupid.

You gotta believe me.

I'll make you this promise. I'm going to give this town a good going over.

And I'll try to find that crock you said you killed.

I said I killed.

I killed him!

I'm going to try to find that crock.

What if you don't?

What if he managed to crawl away before he actually died?

What if he got back to his own lines?

I don't see how he possibly could. But what if he did?

You get ready to move out.

Kirby and Cage will take you as far as the river from there. You can make it on

your own.

I'll tell you.

You drop dead.

Holy.

Wait one.

This is White Rook. Request permission to delay return for one hour. Over.

For what purpose, White Rook? Over.

Perform special recon patrol. Over.

The

battalion

doesn't need the OP here.

Doc, you take him right back.

We're going to look for that Kraut.

Okay.

You and Kirby take him as far as the river.

All right.

There doesn't seem to be any of them down this way.

There doesn't seem to be anybody. Maybe we could make it.

There's a direct line of fire from the snipers up there.

There's snipers out there and two schmeissers behind the rubber around the

corner. Yeah, they're dug in pretty close.

Checkmate. King 2, this is White Rock, over.

King 2, this is White Rock, over.

King 2, this is White Rock, over.

Well, maybe he got busted when he hit the ground out there.

Hey, Sarge!

What about the dollar here?

How good is his debt?

The

only

way out is down that main street and we'll be sitting ducks for our

schmeisers. If we could get up on the roof, we'd be off and running before

they knew what was happening.

Come on, keep looking out that window.

Here, if we keep you around that alley, we may have to hold a pistol, Doc.

But Sarge, we better get out of here while we can. If they call for

reinforcements, we won't have a chance.

Don't you get it, little John?

We got a wounded man here.

He couldn't make it over the rooftops.

So we just got to sit here.

Like sitting ducks.

All because of a coward who tried to get himself a free pass out of the fighting.

You still hold up, huh, Sarge?

Yeah, just fly to keep him pinned down around when the last light gets dark.

Don't try to pull out of here.

Hey, Sarge.

Still no crowds down this way.

Those lousy schmeisers, they really got us pinned down.

Hey, Sarge.

Maybe I can whip myself across the street with a couple of grenades while

you guys give me cover.

Forget it, suicide.

Wow.

Suicide if we stay here also.

What do you get for a self-inflicted wound charge?

I don't know.

I mean, they send you to prison, you get a dishonorable discharge, what?

I don't know.

What difference does it make?

It seems they don't give you any medals.

But if I got a not guilty, I'd have a black eye last me the rest of my life,

right?

Look, you want some advice?

just don't talk about it

Good night.

I'm sorry, Doc.

Shut up.

Sergeant Wright, you could have killed yourself.

They try to crawl to the colony and get the guy with the schmeiser.

Who do you think's going to believe that?

You're pulling another cop out and you know it.

Just take it easy, Fleming. Then tell him to shut up and save it for the

chaplain.

We could have all been killed trying to save your stinking hide.

When I get through testifying at your court, Marshal Brother, you're going to

wish you... Hey, Fleming!

Take a look over there.

Here with us on bayonet.

Like Caleb said.

all the way today.

Yeah, we got him. It's all clear.

Thank you.

to get that?

Hey, I followed a few blocks down the street. I figured we'd want it. Hey,

run!

Hey, illusion.

Give Doc a hand. Get him in the truck, huh?

Like you said, believe only what you see with your own eyes, huh?

That's right.

And even then, you have to look twice.